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US 12,725,217 B1Granted
Systems and methods for verifying the authenticity of documents
AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)
InventorArthur Quentin Smith
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Abstract
A system and method for ensuring the authenticity of imaged documents by embedding data into the images of such documents. The embedded data can then be extracted and decoded, and used to determine whether a particular document may be fraudulent. The documents may be checks, money orders, contracts, invoices, titles or other legal documents that may need to have their authenticity confirmed to prevent, for example, forged or otherwise false documents from being accepted as genuine.
Claims5
A method for authenticating a document image comprising:
- performing at least one of retrieving authentication data and generating authentication data to be embedded in the document image;
- associating the authentication data to be embedded with the document image;
- embedding the authentication data into the document image to produce a document image with embedded authentication data by using a time the document image is produced to determine a location in the document image at which to embed the authentication data;
- embedding redundant data into the document image, the redundant data allowing reconstruction of the authentication data when the document image is corrupted;
- embedding extraneous data into the document image, the extraneous data being omitted from the authentication data when determining the authenticity of the document image;
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- transmitting the document image with the embedded authentication data to a server that has an application that is configured to extract the embedded authentication data from the document image by using the time the document image is produced to determine a location of the authentication data in the document image with the embedded authentication data, compare the extracted embedded authentication data to stored data, and approve the document image if the extracted embedded authentication data matches the stored data.
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